Posted on 03/29/2007 1:58:08 PM PDT by USA Girl
How many tax-funded studies are needed before parents comprehend that farming their children's education out to strangers in institutional settings may be harmful to their kids' social skills?
A new report published March 26, derived from the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, exposes alarming results for parents who use day care and the public school system as babysitting services.
Since 1991, researchers with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development have studied around 1,000 American children kept in "non-maternal child care" from birth through 54 months of age.
While this longitudinal multi-million dollar study on the lives of institutionalized children has been slogging along for 16 years, other researchers have been studying another group of youngsters, namely, those being homeschooled. Oddly enough, all these studies lead to the same logical conclusion: Home is where true childhood socialization is built. If you want a child to act like an animal, then send him to the funny farm commonly known as the public school and day-care system. If you want him to be civilized, teach him at home....
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
It's sad that we need, after decades of hearing the supposed benefits of having daycare from day one and mommies rushing back to work, to tell us what so many of us already know. But it's encouraging to know that there is research to back it up when we have to discuss it with feminazis. Thankfully, too, the trend seems to be swinging back, more moms taking more time off or just staying at home.
I think this is an invalid conclusion.
I think you have to look at the reasons why a kid is put into daycare. Maybe the parents were selfish, and this affected other areas of parenting.
My son had to go into daycare when he was 2 years old. I was put on bedrest while I was pregnant with twins. At 6 weeks old the twins got sick and were in the hospital for a month, and then had lots of medical problems (1 with severe asthma and the other brain damage).
My son stayed in daycare, and it was a Godsend! He stayed in daycare full-time for about a year, and then he only went 2 or 3 days a week and took the summers off. He didn't have to go to doctor's appointments, speech therapy, and other things with my daughters and I. He got to go play with other kids.
My son is in 7th grade, and he is a straight A student. He's very active in Christian clubs. He's an all around good kid.
When my husband would get home from work, we made a special effort for one of us to spend one-on-one time with my son. We read to him, played with him, etc without his sisters. He knew we loved him. We also did special things with him on the weekends.
I absolutely hated sending my son to daycare. I was a stay-at-home mom, so it was really difficult for me to see him go. However, he didn't suffer any long term bad effects from daycare.
I think maybe the kids that are having problems are dealing with other issues (divorced parents, parents that are never home, weak parents, parents that do drugs). There are worse things than sending your kids to daycare.
Choosy moms choose homeschool! Great article.
Yeah, I know what you mean, FC.
Lucky, I'm glad your story is positive. But it's anecdotal. And maybe you really are "lucky."
I think the study in the article was on a thousand kids or something like that. One story is good, but 1000 stories say a lot more.
I believe home schooling or private school is really the only option for serious conservatives. The danger of public schools is it either leaves an empty spot where critical thinking should be or it fills that spot with emotionalism teaching kids to be pests saving the world from Global Warming and baby diapers.
I consider myself lucky when I went to public school to have some really excellent teachers (some really horrid ones too but the good ones made up for it) but many of the children I went to school with were not as lucky. Once they got put on the lower tracks they became stuck regardless if the initial difficulties they were having had been resolved. So they ended up getting taught the bare minimum. I think the biggest advantage I had was the desire to read and find out more about the world and how it worked.
Too many leave schools empty shells with almost no intellectual pursuits or desires and if they do have them they have a depth of simplicity built on false assumptions and catch phrases. This leaves many especially susceptible to flowery promises of universal(they think free) health care and raising the minimum wage. People who have little inside them like being told they are just as good (as they are) and aren't responsible for their plight. That is the success of liberalism. It feeds the core of bitterness, hopelessness, and envy. I believe that is what you are gambling with when you send your children to public school.
For the vast majority of parents the answer is "ZERO" tax-funded studies
They ALREADY know it harms their children, but faced with the awful choice of having to personally sacrifice their life styles to deal with that reality, they simply live in denial.
Interesting, er... headline. *cough*
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While I have very strong opinions about public school, and a lot of other things, I have enough confidence that if I reach my children about REALITY, and the concepts of truth, facts, and faith, as well as the game of Utopia being played by today's school system and Leftists, that they will come to correct conclusions on their own. I am not raising cowardly parrots -- what educrats (again, see Germany's current treatment of homeschoolers, for an example; see America's MSM newsrooms for another example) are actually doing, but accuse homeschoolers of what they themselves are doing.
The only reasons I got anywhere, despite attending public school, were the principles and faith lived by example from parents, and having essentially homeschooled myself, since school was such a waste of time. I had to accomplish, despite busy homework, the education that I should have had, on my own. How I wished my parents knew, God bless 'em, what I know now about public schools. I couldn't put my finger on it back then. Forunately, many more articulate than I have now written about the public school system.
I wish I could somehow explain to moms that there are special and important things going on during those early years -- when parents are cajoled into handing over those wee ones to "professionals". Femi-communism has done women such a disservice.
We don't need any more. If they don't choose to believe it now, they won't believe it no matter how many more studies are done.
You did have a valid reason for putting your child in daycare initially AND he wasn't put into daycare at 6 weeks old and left there until he was old enough to be a latchkey kid.
I think those kids are the norm at daycare centers, and that is why the studies show what they show.
It is only because of liberal democrat agendas that anyone ever thought day-care was as good as mommy. Just because a bunch of fools want something to be true, doesn't make it true! Look around; does 'global warming' jump to mind?
I read a book by a woman (wish I could remember her name and title of book) researcher who did these 'studies' to see how children were affected by daycare. She said they did not release the correct statistics because they were afraid they would hurt a mother's feelings. They said many moms have no choice but to work and they needed encouragement not discouragement. It has been about 10 years since I read the book. I'll try to find that title and post it.
Kids are very smart. They know if you do something for a legimate reason or if you are doing it for selfish reasons. You son obviously understood you had legitimate reasons.
Home schooling doesn't always work... http://www.wmur.com/news/11439962/detail.html
So you're saying homeschooling is the reason this one girl played a computer game and got snared by a sexual predator?
That's quite a stretch. To say that homeschooling had anything to do with it, you'd have to say that most public schoolers aren't prey to the same thing.
Not gonna fly in the world of logic. Besides, it's one story. Find 1000 more and I'll take you seriously.
But it was a good try.
I support that too. Great point! :o)
But saying homeschooling doesn't always work because of one news story gives the wrong impression.
Nothing in life always works, take marriage between one man and one woman as an example.
But that doesn't mean it's not the best choice.
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